In his 2006 State of the Union message, President G.W. Bush famously (and falsely) declared that America is “addicted to oil.” As a solution, Bush proposed to “fund additional research in cutting-edge...
It seems as you grow older there are more and more reasons why you should have listened to your parents when you were a kid. Well, here’s a new one to add to the list of dinner table orders – stop wasting your...
This post examines our own history on the planet, outlines how the ancient-derived reward pathways of our brain are easily hijacked by modern stimuli, and concludes that in very real ways, we have become addicted to the 'consumptive...
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